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[SpaINdia] Cooper ACTioning Urban Condensers Updating Heritage Areas

By Franca Alexandra Sonntag, postdoc and lecturer in architecture, and Ricardo Montoro Coso

Universidad Politécnica de Madrid Press · 2022

In 2019 two Siamese workshops were organized by Aula Coopera [Spain/in/India], under the same research topic, Urban Condensers. Updating heritage areas, the workshops took place in two different cities: Madrid and Ahmedabad; two countries in two continents. With the participation of 14 professors, eight conferences, previous trips visiting paradigmatic architectures, walking through the intervention sites in contact with their inhabitants; 50 students of various levels and seven nationalities produced different proposals for the re-activation of public space in both cities among 17 working groups. This book describes the workshops, including the immense experiences of participants living in situ together.

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